Leslie Fiedler Summary

The roster of "great critics and historians of American literature in this century," the New York Times Book Review once announced, "would have to include Leslie [Aaron] Fiedler, by far the least acad... Read more

Critical Essay by Charles R. Larson One cannot help asking just whom Fiedler was trying to put on when he wrote ["Come Back to the Raft Ag'in, Huck Honey"]—just as the sam... Read more

Critical Essay by Jonathan Yardley Middle aged, and having to his credit a substantial body of publications, Leslie Fiedler can no longer lay claim to the title of enfant terrible of American letters... Read more

Critical Essay by Doris Grumbach Freaks: What a compendium! It is almost an encyclopedia. Fiedler admits that research assistants helped him gather this mountain of anecdote, fact, rumor, hearsay, li... Read more

Critical Essay by Kenneth Rexroth In a trilogy of critical works, "Love and Death in the American Novel," "Waiting for the End," and now "The Return of the Vanishin... Read more

Critical Essay by Peter Michelson Leslie Fiedler is one of those literary personalities who has the effect of polarizing his readers. Already his new study of American Western mythology [The Return o... Read more

Critical Essay by Gabriel Pearson Fiedler has long been a lone ranger in those marches where academic respectability merges into individual guru-mongering and self-promotion. And it has been a specia... Read more

Critical Essay by Sanford Pinsker There is something haunting and magical about Leslie Fiedler's criticism. We are, of course, familiar with the general outlines: its relentless probing into o... Read more

Critical Essay by Larzer Ziff The first of the linked essays that make up What Was Literature? is called "Who Was Leslie A. Fiedler?" The answer to that question is the key to respondin... Read more

Critical Essay by William Van O'connor Leslie Fiedler takes his title [No! In Thunder] from a comment Melville made about Hawthorne: "There is the grand truth about Nathaniel Hawthorne.... Read more

Critical Essay by Irving Howe Leslie Fiedler, a man of learning and intelligence, has composed another of those fascinating catastrophes with which our literary scholarship is strewn. Love and Death ... Read more

Critical Essay by Seymour Krim Aggressive, cocksure, intellectually sadistic, dogmatic, gossipy, and more keenly involved with contemporary America than probably any of his critical peers, Professor ... Read more

Critical Essay by Hugh Kenner Leslie Fiedler, suggests his publisher, "can no longer be called 'the wild man of American literary criticism,'" but no alternative is sugges... Read more